Sphere over South Tampa, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was sitting on my lanai and I looked up and saw a round sphere up in the sky. The color was metallic silver. I watched it for 30 seconds and I told myself maybe its a drone? I looked at it again for roughly 2/3 minutes and it moved very slowly. I live close to MacDill Airforce base but I have never seen anything like that before. I've been searching to see if anyone else might have seen it also, so far nothing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136488). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-09-23 → 2017-10-10
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